The world’s largest steam locomotive, Big Boy No. 4014, rolls into Topeka on Oct. 17, 2024. (Photo by Anna Kaminski/Kansas Reflector) The train named Big Boy was late. Anticipation and impatience ...

Riddle me this: what has 24 wheels, weighs more than three Jumbo Jets, and can pull five miles (eight kilometers) of cargo at seventy miles per hour full steam? That last clue should easily give it ...

A dinosaur rolled into Kansas City Tuesday night. It’s not really a dinosaur, but the Union Pacific No. 4014 Big Boy steam locomotive that rumbled and hissed to a stop at Union Station to the delight ...

The Pere Marquette No. 1225 was built in 1941 and is an iconic piece of Michigan history. Each winter, the railroad offers ...

MUSKOGEE, Okla. — The largest operating steam train in the world, Big Boy, made its way through multiple Green Country towns on Monday. On Monday Morning, Big Boy left McAlester and made its way to ...

HOUSTON — Big Boy is coming to Houston. The world's largest operating steam locomotive - Union Pacific's Big Boy No. 4014-has rolled into Houston. It will be in the Bayou City on Oct. 6 through Oct. 7 ...

CLAREMORE, Okla. – On any other day, it would be strange to see people lining a quarter-mile of railroad track in the early afternoon. But Monday, Oct. 14, was Train Day in Claremore, and thousands ...

The Union Pacific Locomotive, known as the 'Big Boy,' is passing through Oklahoma Monday as part of its Heartland of America Tour. Big Boy is the biggest steam locomotive in the world, measuring 132 ...

CLAREMORE, Okla. — The world's largest operating steam locomotive made stops in Muskogee and Claremore on Oct. 14. Union Pacific's Big Boy #4014 is on an eight-week, 10-state tour celebrating ...

Hundreds of Kansans greet the world's largest steam locomotive, Big Boy No. 4014, on Oct. 17, 2024, in North Topeka. (Anna Kaminski/Kansas Reflector) TOPEKA — The train named Big Boy was late.

Engineers operate the Union Pacific’s Big Boy as it rolls into Kansas City on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024. The 1.2 million-pound locomotive first put into operation in 1941 is one of 25 ever built and the ...